In a trade, your risk is defined by your stop to stack-size ratio and the size of your one position.

When you’re losing, you either lower the magnitude of your stop, or lower the quantity of your one position.

Till when?

Till your corpus crosses par and then some.

At par, you trade normal.

Normal stop.

Normal quantity.

What is normal?

Depends on you.

What is normal for you?

That’s what goes.

Why the caution when below par?

Lots works against you at this time.

Sheer math for example. Downsizing sets this right.

Emotions.

Whoever’s got a remedy for those is king already.

You.

Your body-chemistry is affected. You’re sluggish. More prone to error. Nobody’s got a remedy for you, except you. Wait for your body to heal before trying out that perfect cover-drive, or what have you.

Winning or losing in the markets depends a lot upon psychology, chronology, systems, strategy, application and adaptation of style.

HFCS, short for high fructose corn syrup, is therefore full of poison.

HFCS is much cheaper than table sugar.

HFCS is used in big volumes by the food industry. It’s replacing normal sugar. Everywhere. It’s sheer… poison. And it’s cheap. Very cheap.

It’s in cola, it’s in ketchup, it’s in almost all processed foods.

What happens to it in the body?

Well, what happens to poison?

It goes straight to the liver. This wonderful and magnanimous organ tries to break it down.

One big side-effect of the breakdown mechanism is the triggering of inflammatory enzymes. Body cells then start to swell up to protect themselves from poison. To and fro is impaired. They don’t want poison coming in. Unfortunately, good stuff, like insulin that throws out excess sugar, is also not allowed to enter. Mankind is poisoning itself to obesity.

Cut out the HFCS.

Exercise to shake out inflammatory mechanism.

See how your inflammation vanishes.

Now let’s talk about the most common financial ailment afflicting mankind.

Debt.

We are in debt.

We take more debt.

We surround ourselves with useless paraphernalia, to ward off reality.

Inflammation, again, disguised, but inflammation.

Ultimately, the mountain of due interest buries us under it. It chokes off our air-supply, just as obese cells produce “bad” lipids that deposit as mountains of plaque in our arteries, and choke off our blood supply.

Let’s nip the problem in the bud.

Like no HFCS – no debt.

Craving for sugar? Fine. Control. To a point. Still craving. Fine. Have. But have normal sugar, along with fibre. Don’t have anything that contains HFCS. Shake off the relatively minor inflammation caused by normal sugar with exercise. You’re good.

Longing to spend money? Control. To a point. Still longing to possess that something? Fine. Save. Consolidate. Accumulate cashflow. Only use debt when upcoming cashflow nullifies it in very foreseeable future. You’ve gotten your something, and you’re either debt-free already, or are going to be debt-free very soon.

I love the German language for it’s ability to combine words so that they can deliver a fistful!

So, what does it mean?

Quer means at an angle.

Einstieg means entry.

If you bang with something head-on, you’re likely to rebound.

If you chisel into something at an angle with great force, you are likely to enter that something.

That’s the logic.

And it works.

Albert Schweitzer, was it?

The multiply famous nobel-laureate who proposed and demonstrated Quereinstieg into fluency with a foreign language?

The formula was, for weeks in a row, to read texts, delve into media, the whole works, all in the foreign language, without really understanding what’s happening at first, and then getting a hold of the language’s structure through Sprachgefuehl, or feeling for language.

Within a month or so, one would be speaking the language. One’s skills would be enough to get by on the streets. Works.

Sprachgefuehl in action is a prime example of Quereinstieg.

These are fast times.

Almost the whole day, one is multitasking.

And then, something new comes along.

A new problem.

One has to find a solution fast.

There is no time to start from scratch.

All other matters must be pulled along. Many people’s daily lives and routines hang upon you pulling your load.

So, where does that leave you?

Cut to Quereinstieg.

You delve into the new matter, fast, at an angle, without bothering how you’ll fare.

You keep all your faculties open.

Your senses are on high alert.

You use your common-sense.

You learn from the play.

As you keep playing, on and on, you master technique.

The matter is not a problem anymore.

You incorporate the new asset into your repertoire as you attack your daily routine with renewed vigour and an arsenal boasting your latest Quereinstieg conquest.

Society teaches us to win at all costs. It doesn’t teach us to take a small loss and get out.

Trading works differently, however.

You can’t will a losing trade to win.

Society teaches us to book a winner and post it on social media immediately.

Again, trading is so different.

A small winner needs to be left alone, so that it can grow into a multibagger.

When we enter into the world of trading, we have to first swear to ourselves that we will start to program our minds from day one.

Otherwise, we’re dead-meat.

We need to teach our minds to let winners win some more.

And, we need to programme our minds to cut many, many small losers while they are still small, simultaneously and slowly getting immune to the pinch of minuscule losses by taking these in stride, one, after another after another…

…, till, the rest, as they say, is recorded as successful trading by History.